Exact Resummations in the Theory of Hydrodynamic Turbulence: III. Scenarios for Anomalous Scaling and Intermittency

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1995-07-26

arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9507007v2

Phys. Rev. E v.53 3518 (1996)

Nonlinear Sciences

Chaotic Dynamics

PRE submitted, 22 pages + 11 figures, REVTeX. The Eps files of figures will be FTPed by request to fnlvov@wis.weizmann.ac.il

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.53.3468

Elements of the analytic structure of anomalous scaling and intermittency in fully developed hydrodynamic turbulence are described. We focus here on the structure functions of velocity differences that satisfy inertial range scaling laws $S_n(R)\sim R^{\zeta_n}$, and the correlation of energy dissipation $K_{\epsilon\epsilon}(R) \sim R^{-\mu}$. The goal is to understand the exponents $\zeta_n$ and $\mu$ from first principles. In paper II of this series it was shown that the existence of an ultraviolet scale (the dissipation scale $\eta$) is associated with a spectrum of anomalous exponents that characterize the ultraviolet divergences of correlations of gradient fields. The leading scaling exponent in this family was denoted $\Delta$. The exact resummation of ladder diagrams resulted in the calculation of $\Delta$ which satisfies the scaling relation $\Delta=2-\zeta_2$. In this paper we continue our analysis and show that nonperturbative effects may introduce multiscaling (i.e. $\zeta_n$ not being linear in $n$) with the renormalization scale being the infrared outer scale of turbulence $L$. It is shown that deviations from K41 scaling of $S_n(R)$ ($\zeta_n\neq n/3$) must appear if the correlation of dissipation is mixing (i.e. $\mu>0$). We derive an exact scaling relation $\mu = 2\zeta_2-\zeta_4$. We present analytic expressions for $\zeta_n$ for all $n$ and discuss their relation to experimental data. One surprising prediction is that the time decay constant $\tau_n(R)\propto R^{z_n}$ of $S_n(R)$ scales independently of $n$: the dynamic scaling exponent $z_n$ is the same for all $n$-order quantities, $z_n=\zeta_2$.

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